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    I took mainly november off and that right there kinda hurt me, got a good pay check and took time off...now I am working again and i plan on not taking huge breaks..I just had a lot going on at the time...anyways....its december and I am not even hitting 100 a day. I dont know what it is. I am putting in more hours as well...tonight i was the number 2 girl..i made 49 dollars...no shit. like i dont know if its just me.....maybe i suck at it now...i dunno...but i mean everyone loved my show. so I sit here dazed and confused. wthhhhhhh is it the holidays? maybe the camsite i am on? I am always bubbly, i seduce...im good at what i doooo...but it aint happenin. just aint happenin (
    if it is the holidays will it pick up???

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    Do you have a back up site, gingerstripper?
    When my main site isn't working for me, I give it an hour and jump to my back up. Sit on back up site for an hour and then jump back.
    My earnings have been fine.

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    Default Re: will camming get better after the holidays

    I'm pretty sure most girls on StripperWeb would agree that camming is roughly always the same through out the entire year. Whenever its a holiday, theres less customers on and less girls on. Whenever its a weekend, theres more customers on but way more girls. Camming tends to even out.

    I think your issue is that you probably lost placement/cam score from not working the whole month, so you have to build that back up. That's probably why your $$$ is low right now, not the season.

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    I'm pretty sure most girls on StripperWeb would agree that camming is roughly always the same through out the entire year
    Perhaps most ... but not all ! Consider the following ...

    - college student customers will both be home ( i.e. limited private access to internet ), and also concerned about coming up with spring tuition money

    - higher earning customers will be concerned about new taxes hitting their paychecks in January.

    - most customers will be concerned about holiday spending hitting their January credit card statements.

    - northern hemisphere customers will be concerned about rapidly rising seasonal heating bills.

    It has been my experience that, once the 'christmas spirit' and christmas 'bonus' spending is over with, things usually get pretty slow until tax refunds start arriving !

    However, keep in mind that, on any given day, it's totally possible that new customers with more money than they know what to do with will suddenly 'find' you !!!

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    No because we're all going to die on the 21st this month.








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    Quote Originally Posted by Melonie View Post
    Perhaps most ... but not all ! Consider the following ...

    - college student customers will both be home ( i.e. limited private access to internet ), and also concerned about coming up with spring tuition money

    - higher earning customers will be concerned about new taxes hitting their paychecks in January.

    - most customers will be concerned about holiday spending hitting their January credit card statements.

    - northern hemisphere customers will be concerned about rapidly rising seasonal heating bills.

    It has been my experience that, once the 'christmas spirit' and christmas 'bonus' spending is over with, things usually get pretty slow until tax refunds start arriving !

    However, keep in mind that, on any given day, it's totally possible that new customers with more money than they know what to do with will suddenly 'find' you !!!
    I really don't think paycheck-to-paycheck guys tend to affect the higher end cam girl though. Since the higher end cam girl charges whatever she pleases and gets away with it (granted, she usually is providing a higher quality niche service to justify the high price IMO), the average paycheck-to-paycheck guy would probably not spend on her, or at least not be one of her regulars. Men with more money (or higher credit card limits lol), would not be affected by purchasing holiday gifts.

    Second, time off. Don't people normally take vacations around this time? Wouldn't that mean more time for cam girls? Even with their kids at home, they are still free in evenings, or when kids are off playing with other kids?

    Escaping relatives and releasing higher-than-normal levels of stress. Spending time with cam girls, anyone? This can also happen at night (but remember its always night time somewhere in the world) when they are away from relatives.

    Also, regulars, for some semi-creepy reason, often see the cam girl as part of his life often buying her gifts or tipping her extra during the holidays. I guess we are a (secret) part of the family to some. Camming is all about building a relationship with the customer, a one-on-one interaction, so while its creepy, it still doesn't surprise me.

    And lastly, what about lonely singles? They would probably be spending MORE time on cam. A lot of men who are really into their job (read: $$$$$$) have little to no time to maintain a relationship, so this becomes like a quasi relationship for them. Because its holiday season, they will probably be lonelier and spend even more money than usual.

    Its variables like these that make it even out. But there are a million variables.

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    Default Re: will camming get better after the holidays

    If you visit the last couple of pages of The General Purpose "Camming Sucks Right Now" Thread ya'll see that its not just you. Alot of models have been having trouble for the last couple of months or so.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Blovely View Post
    If you visit the last couple of pages of ya'll see that its not just you.
    Lol that thread is skewed though? Because its solely about camming being bad. It was bad for me for a couple days, but mostly because 1.) streamate is having major connection issues, and 2.) i had no been logged on regularly so my placement/cam score/schedule had suffered because regulars did not know when to expect me on.

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    No...it's gets worse, if you think this is bad just wait for January.

    December last year was great for me, especially the week before Christmas.
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    This will be my second year camming in December and I banked last year. This year is so bad I don't know why. I had hoped that guys would spend more during the Holidays but I guess not. September was supposed to be the worst for business but I banked. It was my best month of the year. I still have so much to be thankful for

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    yes, I banked in septemeber as well. it was awesome. october as well. I do not have a backup site. I am currently on Chaturbate and it sucks fucking ass..I do have an account on mfc but my came score is like 850.....so its like 10 people in my room...Maybe its the site I am on. I mean I had a lot of people in my room last night...I was like YA! THIS IS GONNA BE AWESOME....but walked away with 49 dollars. I have an account on sm too...just have not tried it because I it to be awesome. I want a good placement...but with things being sloow, i figured it was best to wait until things picked up to try sm.
    Perhaps its the site I am on. but i dont know of many other sites. Thank you ladies for replying, its helping me feel a lot better. I felt like maybe I was a lost cause cam girl or something....and thing is..I should stand out..since I am a ginger...so I am a lil different. hmmm. -continues to drink coffee-

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    Yes, October was great too! November wasn't so bad but December.... DAMN! It's like WTF?!
    I hate busy traffic and few spenders!

    Quote Originally Posted by gingerstripper View Post
    yes, I banked in septemeber as well. it was awesome. october as well. I do not have a backup site. I am currently on Chaturbate and it sucks fucking ass..I do have an account on mfc but my came score is like 850.....so its like 10 people in my room...Maybe its the site I am on. I mean I had a lot of people in my room last night...I was like YA! THIS IS GONNA BE AWESOME....but walked away with 49 dollars. I have an account on sm too...just have not tried it because I it to be awesome. I want a good placement...but with things being sloow, i figured it was best to wait until things picked up to try sm.
    Perhaps its the site I am on. but i dont know of many other sites. Thank you ladies for replying, its helping me feel a lot better. I felt like maybe I was a lost cause cam girl or something....and thing is..I should stand out..since I am a ginger...so I am a lil different. hmmm. -continues to drink coffee-

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    Usually December is a good month for me, but I always say - the time of year/week/month/moon cycle/whatever doesn't make any difference. You can argue till you are blue in the face for possible reasons for a certain time to be good or bad, but I firmly believe that it really doesn't matter. Barring, of course, major changes - like if there was a giant stock market crash, or a supervolcano erupted and took out half of north america. But just holidays/tuition/etc? Nah.

    You may just be having a slow week - we all know that it happens! Sometimes I find that if I have taken time off, it takes a little while to get my mojo working again - just keep plugging away, put the hours in, find ways to amuse yourself....and I'll bet that it WILL pick up for you. Not because the time of year has changed, but because you get back into the swing of things.

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    Thank you so much! Its gonna get better......i just got get back into swing, there are girls who are making money...but being a solo girl on the site while other girls have there partner with them does kinda hurts the solo acts.

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    This past week has been rough for me, but I don't think it's particularly related to the time of year. I had been doing well and I think I was feeling a little big for my britches . Logging on less time and just assuming the money would keep rolling in. But I have been getting a decent amount of gifts from my wishlist purchased for me, so I don't think my regulars are too concerned about money...

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    I swear it depends on the mood I'm in. I could say this week has sucked horribly....but yet 10 other girls could say they've had the best week in months. Or I could say I'm having the best week ever, and someone else could be having their worst week. Anyways, December has been about the same as any other month for me.

    If your extremely curious....start doing daily/weekly/monthly charting (hours, goals, earnings, etc.). Then you could always analyze day to day, week by week, month by month and year by year.

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    I don't think times of the year matter. . I will argue forever and ever. . but there is ALWAYS an excuse of why it could be slow. It's the end of the month, it's a Tuesday, Christmas is coming, it's a holiday, kids are not in school, it's a weekend so people are going out instead. . blah blah. . .

    I think we are just extremely lucky that we can log on ANY time of the day, on ANY day of the week, 24/7, from the comfort and privacy of our own homes, and still make money. This job is even portable.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Classy_Katy View Post
    No...it's gets worse, if you think this is bad just wait for January.

    December last year was great for me, especially the week before Christmas.
    Hmm... January was awesome for me last year... and the holidays were pretty good too... I have only had two days so far that I would consider to be BAD BAD BAD. Other than that, like GR said... it all evens out. Yah it's been "slow" but not "bad", for me anyway. Also like GR said, I think it's probably your placement that would be hurting you since you took so long off rather than the season.

    If you are having a hard time keeping the "it all evens out" thing into perspective, track your earnings and your hourly average meticulously on a spread sheet and you will see that it all pretty much should even out on a weekly/monthly basis.
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    Thanks guys!!

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    This is my selling point right now! SPEND SPEND SPEND none of will be here for Christmas
    Quote Originally Posted by HaydenBlue View Post
    No because we're all going to die on the 21st this month.

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    Escaping relatives and releasing higher-than-normal levels of stress. Spending time with cam girls, anyone? This can also happen at night (but remember its always night time somewhere in the world) when they are away from relatives.

    Also, regulars, for some semi-creepy reason, often see the cam girl as part of his life often buying her gifts or tipping her extra during the holidays. I guess we are a (secret) part of the family to some. Camming is all about building a relationship with the customer, a one-on-one interaction, so while its creepy, it still doesn't surprise me.


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    Quote Originally Posted by GlamourRouge View Post
    Lol that thread is skewed though? Because its solely about camming being bad. It was bad for me for a couple days, but mostly because 1.) streamate is having major connection issues, and 2.) i had no been logged on regularly so my placement/cam score/schedule had suffered because regulars did not know when to expect me on.
    True but that's why I said the last couple of pages. There's been posts on the last couple of pages and other threads where models have specifically said that their daily average has plummeted in last couple of months. I'm just telling the OP that its not just her who's having a hard time right now so don't feel like your alone... like it just you.

    @gingerstripper Sam38G made great posts in a similar thread about marketing. It's mainly about SM but I think it apply's to all camsites.
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    Wow, my traffic is up, my daily goals are being met easily & having fun on SM. Been doing better & better on there all the time.

    Sometimes it is a mind set. No negativity allowed.

    The cam model link is super easy to do. Go back & read everything on SM.

    Camming & being online working is part of the job. Marketing Marketing Marketing is the other part.
    Heck today I made $50 without even logging on from the 20% on my cammodels link. It all adds up.
    I do about 2 to 5 hours a day with marketing alone. It pays off when I am on cam & getting converting
    traffic into privates & exclusives.

    http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/marketing-porn

    http://blog.kissmetrics.com/twitter-marketing-guide/

    http://streamate.tumblr.com/

    http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/1...from-the-pros/

    http://www.mindjumpers.com/blog/2012...ing-on-tumblr/

    Find a way to do cute but pg short clips on youtube for marketing your tumblr & twitter accts.

    Yes, you will have to invest time & effort. Wonderful thing about the web, you know pretty fast what is working & what isn't. Hate it when girls dismiss the marketing end of this business yet complain about NOT making money. Cause truly are you doing all it takes to be successful?

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    Then there is clips4sale. Make clips when it is slow, convert & upload them.

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    I see it all as a game or as a fun challenge.
    How can I improve my looks?
    How can I improve my shows?
    How can I improve my conversion rates
    How can I improve my marketing?
    How can I improve my equipment?

    In my opinion, we just can't be just a cam girl. We have to drive our own traffic. I love that SM gives us 40% & 20% more for recruiting new customers. Yesterday I made $50, but I also helped other girls make $65. It all builds to our advantage to become major traffic brokers. And if you decide to leave or do things like c4s & such you have a built in traffic base to do it with.
    Marketing is easy to do while watching a movie or tv. To be a bit more productive during the down time of your day.

    Twitter & tumblr are awesome. How much does it take between cam shows to take a quick pic & post it with your cammodels link? Add a few hashtag key words in like #tits #livecam #streamate #sexy #bigbutt or whatever describes the pic & you best. This will get you new followers & new cam customers. Not to mention fun to be a bit creative with the pics & marketing. I love the responses & sales I do get when done right.

    Fact is affiliate's are NOT doing well at all. A few years ago a great affiliate site brought in $10,000 a month, now this same affiliate site barely does $1000. Social media & tube sites have really cut that market. But also due to those factors, we the girls ourselves have more ability to do it ourselves & easily to drive direct traffic to our own endeavors. (I LoVE THIS!) Truly saddens me to see so many girls pish posh this opportunity away.

    So if it is dead on cam. Log off make some clips, do some marketing & then 20 to 30 minutes later go back to it with a new fresh attitude that you can make major money. Hell, I've done many sph or humilation clips after getting pissed off due to losers & freeloaders. I do something productive & get that out of my system, then later upload it onto c4s & make money off of it. lol

    Currently trending on twitter #sexysunday & #thingsGirlsSayAlot Take a pic, tweet it & say something cute or funny along with your cammodels link.

    When is the last time you changed out your profile pic?

    Change rooms where you cam. I've done dishes plenty of times on cam.

    There is always something you can be doing to get past a slump or to take it to the next level. Dont let the negativity take over & keep you from making what you need.

    Also on SM I've found that if I just cam until I make $100 then quit, my placement goes down. You've got to push & get past that level. It wasn't easy, but I did it with marketing & determination. I used to be on the bottom of the third page. Now, top of the 1st. Now, if my old fat ass can do it, so can you.

    I can't say enough about the book "The secret". REad it, watch the movie. It does work.

    Good Luck Ladies,
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